Five takeaways from Yatess dramatic Senate testimony
Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates testified to a Senate Judiciary Committee panel on Monday in one of the most hotly anticipated hearings of the Trump era to date.
Yates’s testimony was a huge media event, commanding hours of live cable news coverage.
She came before the committee following several media reports that she had warned the White House that then-national security adviser Michael Flynn had been compromised almost three weeks before he resigned. However, nothing had been heard on the record from Yates herself.
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In the hours before Yates appeared, NBC News also broke the news that former President Barack Obama had personally warned Trump against appointing Flynn to such a sensitive role before he assumed office.
What were the most important points from the hearing itself?
Yates’s testimony is trouble for the White House
The battle over Trump’s ‘travel ban’ has not ended
No break from partisanship
Bad for Trump, but no smoking gun
Speculation about Yates running for office could get louder
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